[OP]
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So, I am the latest greenhorn!
I am looking to setup my own wook-working shop, probably in my garage (SO has sanction a whole 2 bays!!).
Rather than invent the wheel I am hoping members can share their setups so we can all benefit from others trial and error.
Apologies if a thread on this topic exists, but search did not really yield a consolidated one.
So, let's not be shy. Maybe we'll get a sticky out of it!
Best Regards,
"The New Guy"
Toby
This isn't totally accurate but, its close.
"A hen is only an egg's way of making another egg".
– Samuel Butler
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Originally Posted by glenn bradley
Glenn
I couldn't quite make out the size of the Bandsaw.Is that a 12" or 17".
[OP]
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Great, Glenn. Thanks!
What is the Full Length and Width of the shop space?
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Not near as nice as Glenn's drawing but here it is any way.
My shop is a 12x16 out building.
I really don't think I will be making anything really large but its all I have and it is a fun little shop and I really enjoy it.
shop layout.jpg
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Before moving to Georgia where I have a dedicated shop building, I worked in our two-car garage. Most of the equipment was on one side of the garage so LOML could park her car inside at night. Several tools were on roll-around carts that could be placed in a convenient operating position, then rolled back to "my" side of the garage at night. Here's a page from my website showing the arrangement:
http://bbarnold.com/shoplwr.html
[SIGPIC][/SIGPIC] Bill Arnold
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Live every day like it's your last, but don't forget to stop and smell the roses.
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Toby
Always happy to show my modeling. Try Shoptours.org, lots of shop shots there, a little dated, but still plently of ideas.
My Shop is a basement shop.
May_Curr_Iso_1.jpg
This modeling is pretty close to accurate. The Miter Station project is supposed to commense next week. The outfeed table is now a fold down style unit instead of a cabinet.
Chris
Last edited by Chris Jenkins; 09-07-2007 at 9:51 AM.
Almost 10 years of WWing and something tells me I'm going to stay a Newbie the rest of my life, but still having all kinds of fun doing it.
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Shop portion of the 22'x44' building is 22'x30' approximately. Since these graphics were created, the bench was turned 90º to provide better workflow when using the full slider extension and the free-standing router table was eliminated for a solution on the TS.
3D-shop-1-800.jpg
3D-shop-2-800.jpg
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The most expensive tool is the one you buy "cheaply" and often...
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I'm like Bill in that the garage is also my shop, when the weathers bad Beasty usually parks her car in it....usually, except when tree's come down...
Anyway, most of my stuff is on mobile bases so what the shop looks like depends on where I happen to wheel whatever I'm using.
But picture a 2.5 car garage with the front extended 12 foot and that's what I get to play in.
Doing it this way has helped me decide on where I want to place things in my next life or if we move, least I have a good start on where they'll go.
I think each of us has their own preference on how they like to do things and that may influence how the shop is set up, I wouldn't make anything permanent until I worked with it awhile.
Al
Remember our vets, they need our help, just like they helped us.
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I wouldn't exactly say it was ELIMINATED, Jim.
12" now but not tomorrow
"A hen is only an egg's way of making another egg".
– Samuel Butler
Approx. 22' x 31' usable. The laundry area occupies what was a fourth bedroom option that the original owners happily did not opt for. They must have known I was coming. When I first pulled up to look at the house the garage door was open so I was looking straight into it. I think I was sold on the house before I ever got to the door. After all I told my agent I was looking for a garage with somewhere to sleep attached to it.
"A hen is only an egg's way of making another egg".
– Samuel Butler
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Good point...I arranged for it to be relocated it about 50 miles outside of the shop...
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The most expensive tool is the one you buy "cheaply" and often...
Friend of the Creek
I'd sure like to hear what programs you all used to draw some of those pics! I only know about the deltatools shop designer online, and it's pretty painful...
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I don't have the last rearranged pictures but this is what I've done with a 3 car garage.
I hope it helps you.
The fridge is not there any more. There are shlefs in place of it
Here are the shelfs. The fridge is on the other side of the workbench
The workbench on the back is now under the wood rack
Old Lathe
New one
Last edited by Alex Elias; 09-08-2007 at 3:51 AM.
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